Interdenominational Prayer Meeting Held in Zaporizhia

25.01.2012, 15:31
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On January 21, in the eastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia, in the Church of St. Paul of the Roman Catholic Church, an interdenominational prayer meeting was held as part of the World Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

On January 21, in the eastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia, in the Church of St. Paul of the Roman Catholic Church, an interdenominational prayer meeting was held as part of the World Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. The participants prayed in the format of the interdenominational Taize Monastery,” reported our RISU correspondent, Anna Makushynska.

The prayer was attended by General Vicar of the Kharkiv-Zaporizhia Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church, Auxiliary Bishop Yan Sobilo, Archbishop Ihor Isichenko of Kharkiv and Poltava of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, Dean of the Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Protopriest Andrii Bukhvak, Head of Evangelical-Mennonite Community, Borys Letkeman, representatives of the Presbyterian Church and Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, priests, nuns and faithful of various denominations.

Representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate, Christians of Evangelical Faith, Evangelical Christian Baptists were invited, but could not attend the prayer meeting due to certain obstacles.

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